girls:
6 births since 2005
#5710 (0th percentile)
boys:
769 births since 1909
#3818 (17th percentile)
overall:
775 births since 1909
#6964 (10th percentile)
The name Gable is the #6,964 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 775 recorded births since 1909. This represents the 10.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 10.0% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,818 (16.7% percentile) for all time with 769 births since 1909. For girls, it ranks #5,710 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 6 births since 2005.
Gable first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1909 (1909 for boys and 2005 for girls). Birth data for Gable is available in 82 out of the 115 years between 1909 and 2023 (82 years for boys and 1 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Gable has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.2% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Gable reached its peak popularity in 2009, achieving the 2.0% percentile (ranked #883) with 11 births per million. The name was most common in 1909, with 28 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2020, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Gable ranks #905 for boys (0.7% percentile) with 6 births per million, which is 21.2% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Gable reached its peak popularity in 2005, achieving the 0.1% percentile (ranked #938) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2005, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.1% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2005.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Gable".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Gable is pronounced as GAY-buhl, which has 2 syllables.
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